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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

Cultural leaders—athletes, entertainers, and executives—have evolved beyond mere financial backers to highly-engaged strategic partners and advisors for a company’s growth. along with their management team, friends or family to better understand their investment goals and appetite are great first steps to building a relationship.

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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. In the early days, you will be managing full sales cycles. How can we all avoid firing our first sales manager? Well, typing that made me sick! Which are you?

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15 Communities for Creators to Help You Connect, Learn, and Find Brand Partnerships

Buffer Resources

  We welcome business owners and social media managers as well as creators (though we do have a dedicated space for creators in our #creator-corner). While the space is not exclusively for creators, there are plenty of resources and opportunities for them, says Operations Manager Cansu Yetişgin. 

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

She is passionate about managing and motivating others and working in high-pressure, fast-paced collaborative environments. Brooke Bachesta – SDR Manager at Outreach. Brooke Bachesta is a SaaS sales professional with experience as an individual contributor, people manager and process builder.

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21 Digital Marketing Tools You Need When Starting a Business

Neil Patel

From simplifying your social media marketing efforts and project management to finding freelancers, each of these tools will help you get the competitive edge you’re after. With this particular tool, you can schedule and manage social media profiles for more than 30 platforms. Then let’s begin. Google Analytics.

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. That’s why we’ve built subscription management capabilities into our platform. The third stage is when other people can see what you are doing and now other companies try to copy and destroy you ,” explains Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky. At Chargify, we agree.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!